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Artist:	PELT
Title:	Heraldic Beasts
Label:	ECLIPSE RECORDS
Format:	2LP
Price:	$23.00
Catalog #:	ECLIP 050LP

"Intense 2LP survey of Pelt geography around the turn of the century, compiling live recordings the band issued on CD-Rs in tiny editions or on comps, plus some unreleased material. Combines the most all-out electric attacks Pelt's ever deigned to release, plus some of the growling drone float that preceded/coincided with the band's jump into acoustic material. This double LP set is sure to blow some minds -- especially those who have come to know Pelt in the past 2-3 years. These early recordings (1998-2003) are heavy and sure to please those who have been waiting patiently for this. The packaging is incredible, too -- with beautiful artwork and a very sturdy gatefold sleeve."

Artist:	PELT
Title:	Brown Cyclopaedia
Label:	VHF
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	VHF 025CD

Previously available as a double LP on the band's own label, now on CD w/ new artwork by Christina Carter. "Pelt distill the most worthy influences of the recent generation of obscure bands down to the best of the best and add a healthy dose of their own isolation-honed touch. Songs ring with simple, emotionally charged vocals and expressive guitar playing, easily the equal to the best from the NZ/Xpressway scene. Careful soundscapes emerge from a dense fog of guitar and horn noise. Middle-eastern sounding drones are conjured from a trio of guitars and a wordless vocal. Slowly, life becomes meaningful again."

Artist:	PELT
Title:	Ayahuasca
Label:	VHF
Format:	2CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	VHF 062CD

"Recorded over a period of more than two years at various live and studio sessions, this double-CD shows the heavily bearded Jack Rose, Mike Gangloff, and Patrick Best broadcasting from lesser-known and newly discovered corners of the drone-omniverse. Most striking about the record is the inclusion of several traditional tunes, arranged for the group's eclectic instrumentation. While Pelt have long performed acoustic material, Ayahuasca is the first release to fully explore this part of their repertoire. 'The Cuckoo' and 'Deep Sunny South' are traditional Appalachian numbers, played and sung with considerable skill and feeling. The sawing bowed acoustic guitar on the former and the rolling banjo and Tibetan bowl accompaniment on the latter draw a direct line between raw/folk traditions and the deep, visceral drone music that Pelt have specialized in over the past several years. Combining the two styles neatly, 'A Raga Called John' features Jack Rose's very, very fine country-blues/Fahey-influenced fingerstyle guitar over a shifting backdrop of hurdy-gurdy and concertina, before giving way to tanpuras overrun by fretless banjo. Of course, on top of all this easily comprehensible music there's plenty of ear-cleansing, ecstatic drone, from the two long floatation-inducing trios for bowed electrics and esraj to the wall-shaking electric hurdy-gurdy mania of 'Bear Head Apparition.' Truly a record for our times, such as they are."

Artist:	PELT
Title:	Pearls From The River
Label:	VHF
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	VHF 076CD

"First new music in a couple of years from the trio, focusing entirely on their acoustic side -- a single session recorded in Virginia by Mikel Dimmick. 'Up the North Fork' is a trio for banjo, baritone banjo, and cello -- after the snaky bowed introduction, the fast thwacking of the banjos and forcefully strummed cello take over and whip up a storm. The other two tracks are lengthy ragas (one in C, one in D) with the virtuoso modal guitar of Jack Rose front and center."

Artist:	PELT
Title:	Untitled
Label:	VHF
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	VHF 090CD

"(untitled) is a devastating set of almost pure white light from the newly upgraded Pelt lineup. The album's intense drone music represents a return to 'sonic-ism' for the quartet of Jack Rose, Mike Gangloff, Patrick Best, and Mikel Dimmick. Like 2003's effort Pearls from the River, (untitled) is an all-acoustic affair. The group concentrates on producing dense clouds of overtones from guitar, cello, Tibetan bowls, gongs, sruti, and esraj. Track one is an overpowering straight line a la the Theatre of Eternal Music, an atmosphere of stasis with gong and bowl flickering subtly over the massive track bed. Track two is a 32-minute epic that begins with the soft strains of Jack Rose's 12 string, picks up dueling cello and esraj and gradually builds in intensity with the sounds of gongs and other unusual percussion. Track three is the live staple 'Sundogs,' where Rose's Weissenborn lap guitar and Gangloff's resonator guitar produce a stream of unearthly high, singing overtones in an uncanny acoustic impression of electric feedback. The final track is an epilogue of Best's keening cello, again ignoring the usual technique associated with the instrument in the pursuit of pure weirdness."

Artist:	PELT
Title:	Skullfuck/Bestio Tergum Degero
Label:	VHF
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	VHF 098CD

"Now available to all, a new pressing of the extremely limited edition live CD previously attainable only on the band's 2006 European tour. Contrary to the Grateful Dead reference in the title, Skullfuck is a tight recording of a single, intense November 2005 performance from NYC's Knitting Factory. The set begins with an epic group arrangement of Jack Rose's 'Calais To Dover,' with Rose's 12-string shadowed by Mike Gangloff's fiddle, and the thick drone of Mikel Dimmick and Pat Best's harmonium and srutis. The three-part 'Bestio' suite follows, with the group moving to Tibetan bowls and gongs, building up a huge sheet of sound which peaks in a brief 'encore' of wild gong smashing. This new edition is packaged in a gatefold 'eco-wallet' with cover art designed by fabric and fiber-artist Emily Keown."

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